The girl at A&B Sound calls me "honey" and "sweetheart." I'm probably older than her, but she's pregnant, so I guess she can call me whatever she wants. I tried to buy "The United States of Leland" but it's $34 and you have to special order it, so I settled for "Cheaters" at a comparatively meager $10, possibly the only movie with jena malone that can be found for a reasonable price. It's great that they've lowered the prices on cd's but the cost of a good movie is outrageous. Do they wonder why media piracy abounds? Anyone who wonders why needs a good kick in the head.
I bought some tweezers and they don't tweeze. Tweezers, given their simple design and diminutive size, and grossly overpriced. The profit margin on tweezers probably leaves DVD's in the dust. The cheapest I could find were $4. The most expensive were pushing $30, and for all intents and purposes looked much the same. I just want to pluck my eyebrows without emptying my wallet. Instead, I count myself fortunate to have a metal file in my toolbox. A little filing and sanding got the tweezers working at a slightly better efficiency, but still nowhere near my money's worth.
I think it's terribly sad, don't you? Living in a consumer society, where most people don't think twice about being ripped off for a pair of tweezers, paying $30 for a DVD that cost ten cents to produce. The people ripping me off don't care that they're ripping me off, and lets face it, I demand entertainment and two eyebrows, as opposed to just one. Who's to blame? The criminals peddling the overpriced fodder or my own greed?
Don't get me wrong. "The United States of Leland" is worth every penny of $34 and I will probably wind up paying it due to the fact that the movie completely and utterly blew me away. But let's not forget that not long ago they were trying to charge 27.99 for Catwoman, and we all know how well that one measured up.
Recently an article appeared in the New York Post calling Canada a "great white waste of time" full of "zamboni driving molson sucking hockey goons." I read the article, and was incensed. Not because another american has made fun of canada. We all are very used to the general disrespect felt from our neighbors to the south, and quite frankly, Canadians are quite skilled at making a mockery of very nearly everything, including themselves (I just know that when Ani Difranco read that article, she stood up for us. Ani likes us).
What upset me was that Canada will never stand up for herself. Why can't we be independent of the States? Like the kid who walks away from a bully, saying "if that's how you'll be, then I just won't play with you." You've closed the border to beef? Fine, we're closing the border to hydro. See how your eastern seaboard does without our great canadian waste of electricity.
This is not to convey hostility, though it may sound like it. It's only to ask, why would you allow someone to take advantage of you, push you around, make fun of you, and then continue doing their homework for them? Why can't we just walk away from disrespect, put codependence aside and be our own country. Why does our prime minister keep pandering to George Bush, though we're getting ripped off on NAFTA, pressured into a missile program, and pushed around in the export market?
If you don't want to do business, then I don't want to business. Canada depends on America the way I depend on the corner drugstore and it's irritating.
That's all. I'm just irritated. Not by americans, not even by bush..... today. Today I'm irritated by the relationship my country has found itself in, and I have a feeling that Canada will never stand independent, will never demand equal treatment, and will always take blistering insults from the the New York Post, yet continue selling the U.S. everything it wants at a reasonable price.
It's like a shoppers optimum card. I get a point every time I buy $4 tweezers that don't tweeze, and 3 points on $30 face wash, but when I've accumulated 3 trillion points, I'll get $5 off my next purchase.
Gee, thanx.
I think I've come to the place where Canada is suiting my personality less, and I'm wondering who's changed. I love my country, I'm proud of what Canada is, but I would like to see her respect herself.
She could probably make her own tweezers, and tell shoppers optimum to piss off.
I bought some tweezers and they don't tweeze. Tweezers, given their simple design and diminutive size, and grossly overpriced. The profit margin on tweezers probably leaves DVD's in the dust. The cheapest I could find were $4. The most expensive were pushing $30, and for all intents and purposes looked much the same. I just want to pluck my eyebrows without emptying my wallet. Instead, I count myself fortunate to have a metal file in my toolbox. A little filing and sanding got the tweezers working at a slightly better efficiency, but still nowhere near my money's worth.
I think it's terribly sad, don't you? Living in a consumer society, where most people don't think twice about being ripped off for a pair of tweezers, paying $30 for a DVD that cost ten cents to produce. The people ripping me off don't care that they're ripping me off, and lets face it, I demand entertainment and two eyebrows, as opposed to just one. Who's to blame? The criminals peddling the overpriced fodder or my own greed?
Don't get me wrong. "The United States of Leland" is worth every penny of $34 and I will probably wind up paying it due to the fact that the movie completely and utterly blew me away. But let's not forget that not long ago they were trying to charge 27.99 for Catwoman, and we all know how well that one measured up.
Recently an article appeared in the New York Post calling Canada a "great white waste of time" full of "zamboni driving molson sucking hockey goons." I read the article, and was incensed. Not because another american has made fun of canada. We all are very used to the general disrespect felt from our neighbors to the south, and quite frankly, Canadians are quite skilled at making a mockery of very nearly everything, including themselves (I just know that when Ani Difranco read that article, she stood up for us. Ani likes us).
What upset me was that Canada will never stand up for herself. Why can't we be independent of the States? Like the kid who walks away from a bully, saying "if that's how you'll be, then I just won't play with you." You've closed the border to beef? Fine, we're closing the border to hydro. See how your eastern seaboard does without our great canadian waste of electricity.
This is not to convey hostility, though it may sound like it. It's only to ask, why would you allow someone to take advantage of you, push you around, make fun of you, and then continue doing their homework for them? Why can't we just walk away from disrespect, put codependence aside and be our own country. Why does our prime minister keep pandering to George Bush, though we're getting ripped off on NAFTA, pressured into a missile program, and pushed around in the export market?
If you don't want to do business, then I don't want to business. Canada depends on America the way I depend on the corner drugstore and it's irritating.
That's all. I'm just irritated. Not by americans, not even by bush..... today. Today I'm irritated by the relationship my country has found itself in, and I have a feeling that Canada will never stand independent, will never demand equal treatment, and will always take blistering insults from the the New York Post, yet continue selling the U.S. everything it wants at a reasonable price.
It's like a shoppers optimum card. I get a point every time I buy $4 tweezers that don't tweeze, and 3 points on $30 face wash, but when I've accumulated 3 trillion points, I'll get $5 off my next purchase.
Gee, thanx.
I think I've come to the place where Canada is suiting my personality less, and I'm wondering who's changed. I love my country, I'm proud of what Canada is, but I would like to see her respect herself.
She could probably make her own tweezers, and tell shoppers optimum to piss off.
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